We decided to create a sculpture out of the little black containers that hold rolls of film. We also put negatives that didn’t work out into the containers. Originally, our project with James was to create some kind of sculpture using old film canisters and the their parts. Since we never got to finish that project, we decided to try on our own. We have both taken film photography so we had a lot of leftover film containers and pages of failed negatives so we thought it was the perfect opportunity to reuse these items. When James was telling us about the thought process he had behind the project, he mentioned the idea of memory. Every film canister once contained photos. We had hundreds, probably even thousands, of used film canisters, so basically we had the remnants of thousands and thousands of photos that were taken by strangers. What we had was essentially the skeleton of memories, but we’ll never have the original. The concept of memory was interesting to us so we wanted to explore the idea further and like the project we were doing with James, we wanted to use objects that have lost their original function but now have an opportunity to take on new meaning. James uses found objects, sculpture merged with photography in his practice and we were inspired by this. We decided to insert a piece of failed negative into each container but seal up the containers, so one would never be able to access it. Just like how we would never see how all those photos turned out, our failed negatives will never be able to replicate the failed photograph. We liked playing with the idea of the double unknown, because on one hand, the negatives are already failed, but now they don’t even have the opportunity to made into a print. James always emphasized going with the flow and having the sculpture create itself. When one thing didn’t work, he would just hop onto another option. We just experimented with a formation until we found one that we thought worked.